Sebastian Thrun connects lessons from DARPA, Google X, Udacity, and Kitty Hawk to show how we progress from a self-driving car to a self-running service economy. The talk maps agentic AI, smart contracts, and verifiable data into a practical trust stack that leaders can deploy today.
Founder of Udacity & CEO of Kitty Hawk
Former VP of Google & Founder of Google X
CEO & Co-Founder
Butterfly Effect (Ex-Gymshark Head of Social, Global)
In today’s trust-scarce, founder-led world, personal brand is no longer optional. Elfried Samba reveals how leaders, creators, and innovators can build brands that cut through the noise and forge high-value relationships.
This session explores how tokenising real-world assets is creating new rails for capital, unlocking liquidity and efficiency.
CIO Insurance
Pensions & Investments, Lloyds Banking
Chief Analytics Officer
FICO
Artificial Intelligence is driving critical decisions but can we trust how those decisions are made? In this keynote, FICO’s Chief Analytics Officer Dr. Scott Zoldi reveals how blockchain brings auditability, compliance, and trust to AI systems through on-chain governance and model accountability.
This keynote gives leaders five practical tests to judge stablecoins, pinpointing real demand, the policy forces that shape scale, and the path from pilots to production.
Partner
Boston Consulting Group
Head of Department
Payments & Digital Assets, FCA
A Regulator’s Perspective: Policy in Practice
A candid conversation with a regulator who’s been at the frontlines of digital asset policy.
Jane Moore, Head of Department for Payments & Digital Assets at the FCA, joins for an open conversation on the realities of policymaking in digital assets. With first-hand experience at the frontlines of regulation, she will share what regulators need from innovators, how global coordination is (or isn’t) developing, and how key decisions are made behind closed doors.
This fireside chat offers leaders an unfiltered look at policy in practice and what it means for the future of innovation.
Managing Partner
Digital Nation
Blockchain in Public Innovation
Hear from a public sector leader who brought blockchain into national systems — and what they’d do differently next time.
Siim Sikkut, former Government CIO of Estonia and now Managing Partner at Digital Nation, is recognised among the world’s top 20 most influential leaders in digital government. He spearheaded Estonia’s pioneering e-Residency programme and drove the adoption of blockchain in national systems.
In this fireside chat, he shares candid lessons from bringing blockchain into government, exploring how it improves transparency, the challenges of change management, and the real impact it can deliver.
Member of the House of Lords
The Great British Public Service Reform: Blockchain’s Role in Rewiring our Public Sector
Lord Holmes shares his vision for how blockchain can transform public services, not just as a technology, but as a strategic enabler of a fairer, more efficient digital society.
